Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Public Underst Sci. 2010 Jul;19(4):486-96. doi: 10.1177/0963662509335410.
Providing technical and experiential information without overwhelming participants' perspectives presents a major challenge to public involvement in policy decisions. This article reports the design and analysis of a case study on incorporating expert and stakeholder knowledge without including them as deliberators, while supporting deliberative participants' ability to introduce and critically assess different perspectives. Analysis of audio-recorded deliberations illustrates how expert and stakeholder knowledge was cited, criticized and incorporated into deliberations. In conclusion, separating experts and stakeholders from deliberations may be an important prima facie principle when the goal is to enhance citizen representation on technical issues and related policy.
为参与者提供技术和经验信息而又不使他们的观点黯然失色，这对公众参与政策决策来说是一个重大挑战。本文报告了一项案例研究的设计和分析，该研究旨在纳入专家和利益相关者的知识，而不将其作为审议者纳入，同时支持审议参与者引入和批判性评估不同观点的能力。对录音审议的分析说明了专家和利益相关者的知识是如何被引用、批评和纳入审议的。总之，当目标是增强公民在技术问题和相关政策上的代表性时，将专家和利益相关者与审议分开可能是一个重要的初步原则。
